Through the use of highly improbable and unexpected events, Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn” creates fear and suspense. Burt begins to argue with Vicky, causing his attention to sway from the road. Burt turns his attention back to the road to it is too late, he runs over a boy, killing him. After examining the boy his “throat” was slit and also the blood had “splattered” quite far (). At first it is expected that Burt has killed the boy, but after examination of the body it creates a foreshadow for later, and fills Burt with fear. Burt must get answers, he knows that he did not kill the boy, so he goes into town to report it to the cops. After leaving the church of Gatlin the abandoned town, and finding all the names of the deceased kids
